January Image - Great blue Heron fishing

How I did it:

 This is a great blue Heron fishing for his supper. I cropped the original, increased the saturation, and cloned out some of the reeds which were distracting.

Source image: 

COMMENTS:
 

Ernie Zimmerman	The image of Great Blue  Heron fishing was nicely done.  The cropping and cloning to remove unneeded material, markedly improved the photo, as did incresing the saturation. Having a sharp reflection certainly enhanced the image.
Kathy Goldner
Mohanan Nair	Nice work. Cropping and level corrections are very good. Nicely removed the distracting objects.
Sally Grugan	Great detail in the heron's feathers and a very crisp image. It's like a postcard.Leaving more of the reeds in the scene makes it more realistic.
Kathleen L. Sims	Nice shot.  I especially liked the lighting I think you missed a read at the tail end of the Heron.
Bogdan Bricelj	It's a good photo of Heron, which is so timid bird. I gues, how you succeed to come so close. And you had good luck, that it was fishing in so clear water. It's a good crop and levels correction, and you also succed to clear out the grass in front. But that last is the reason, why you can't send this photo to nature exhibitions.

Member Bio

Barb Athanasiou - Biography I am a retired technology/math teacher now living in central Florida with my husband, Bob (a member of group # 19). I come from a long line of amateur photographers and have enjoyed taking pictures since digital cameras came out. Most of the time my subjects tend to be flowers, animals, grandchildren and scenery. I started with a Sony Mavica that saved images on a floppy disk and then graduated to an Olympus 2100 Ultra Zoom. I now use a Nikon D200 and a Nikon D70 with a fixed 300mm F4 lens for photographing birds. I use Paint Shop Pro 11 or 12 for most editing and Dreamweaver CS3 for web design.   Both Bob and I have become active in the photography club here in our retirement community (The Villages). I have taken on the roll of webmaster and twice monthly scan and post the contest winners. To see them click here! Besides photography I have been playing golf, ballroom dancing, creating digital scrapbooks, watching birds and in general being constantly ‘on vacation'